Wakaki Ryokan
若喜旅館
Does Wakaki Ryokan allow tattoos? In a private bath
Wakaki is a nine-room inn whose Japanese-Western rooms come with an open-air tub of flowing spring water, the same source the inn says supplies the Imperial villa.
Wakaki publishes no tattoo rule. Some of its rooms have a source-flowing open-air bath, and the inn has announced that its rooftop private bath is reopening.
The bath
Wakaki says its water comes from the same source that is piped to the Nasu Imperial Villa, and that every tub runs on it at 100 percent with no additions. The inn calls the water soft and says it warms you to the core. It publishes no spring analysis, temperature or bath hours.
The two shared halls are the women's bath and the men's bath. Both are built of Towada blue stone, and the women's side looks onto the garden through glass. The men's side is an indoor bath that the inn says feels open for an indoor room. Each has a washing area. On the roof the inn has added a sky bath and a lookout deck, and its news page says the popular private open-air bath there was due to reopen in early July 2026; check it is running before you count on it. Day visitors can bathe for ¥1,000, elementary-age children ¥500, small children free, with amenities provided so you can come empty-handed.
The private option that is always there is the room. The Japanese-Western room with a source-flowing open-air bath has its own tub on a wooden deck outside the window, screened by bamboo fencing: an oval tub with a hammered reddish surface and a square timber spout, with the same spring water running through it. The rooms with a view bath have an indoor tub at a window that the inn says looks over five peaks: Nasu-dake, Osabi-yama, Nyoho-san, Nantai-san and Takahara-yama.
The hotel
A nine-room inn founded in 1961, which the inn says is now big-tree forest where the garden once was, so the five peaks that were visible from the first floor are seen from the third floor and the roof. The room types are garden-view rooms, mountain-side rooms with south windows for the night sky, rooms with a view bath, and the Japanese-Western room with an open-air bath. Dinner is a boxed meal the inn calls its hospitality bento, served in the room, and breakfast is Western style with fresh fruit and vegetables. The inn does not handle food allergies. A sister hotel with an indoor pool, Hotel Blancvert Nasu, is five minutes' walk away.
Good to know
- Towels and amenities are in the room: yukata (a light cotton robe), toothbrush set, razor, shampoo, cleanser, toner and lotion.
- The bus stop is two minutes away. Get off at Shin-Nasu, 40 minutes from Nasushiobara Station.
- Leather keychain kits for ¥2,000, made in your room between 3 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., for day visitors too.
- Tell them on your birthday. Show ID and the inn gives a small gift.
Getting there
Take the Tohoku Shinkansen (Nasuno or Yamabiko) from Tokyo to Nasushiobara Station, about 60 minutes by the inn's count, or 75 minutes from Sendai. From the station the route bus takes 40 minutes to the Shin-Nasu stop, and the inn is a 2-minute walk from there. By car it is 10 km along the Nasu Kaido from the Nasu interchange, about 15 minutes. The inn publishes no shuttle.
Nasushiobara STN · Tohoku Shinkansen (Nasuno / Yamabiko)
Not walkable.
Route bus 40 minutes to Shin-Nasu, then a 2-minute walk. No shuttle published.
Where it is
Shin-Nasu bus stop
- Tohoku Shinkansen 1 hr 8 min
- Kanto Jidosha bus 39 min
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- JR Tokyo Wide Pass ¥16,000 · 3 days Worth it if Nasu is one stop in a longer Kanto trip.
- Japan Rail Pass from ¥53,000 · 7, 14 or 21 days For a trip that takes in several regions by Shinkansen and JR lines.
What happens when you arrive
Use the bath in your room, or reserve a private bath.
How we know
Bath layout confirmed, tattoo policy not published Checked on the official site ()
Best for: a small inn where the room itself has an open-air tub of flowing spring water
Book a Japanese-Western room with an open-air bath; the view rooms have a bath with a window over five peaks. The inn’s notice says the rooftop private open-air bath would reopen in early July; confirm it is running before counting on it.
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